I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many

Benjamin Franklin

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I am not worried, Harry,' said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. 'I am with you.

J.K. Rowling

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Thomas Carlyle

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

George Washington

You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.

Harvey Pekar

I use many different gadgets connected with computers I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!

Lech Walesa

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Anthony Trollope

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt